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Hey, Boo
Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird; The Untold Story Behind a Great American Novel
By Murphy, Mary McDonagh
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Reviewed on September 1, 2011 | Media
Hey, Boo offers an appreciation, an analysis, and a history of Harper Lee's (b.1926) classic 1960 novel. When a few of Lee's friends came into some money in 1956, they offered her a gift that would allow her to quit her job booking airline flights to write for a year. Drawing on her Monroeville, AL, hometown and family, Lee wrote an original manuscript, turned down by ten publishers...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
